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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Tries For A Wayland Preview

Phoronix: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Tries For A Wayland Preview

While we're at least a year away from seeing the Wayland Display Server play any semi-serious role in the Ubuntu stack, for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS there may actually be an experimental Wayland preview session available...

I think this is a great step in the right direction if they can manage to find time for this. But there's still one major problem (for me at least). Using the nvidia binary driver with wayland. AFAIK nvidia has said they don't plan to support this graphics server. I'm sure though as time progresses and more and more distros migrate to wayland, this will change. Hopefully sooner than later.

So they partically banned gnome 3.4 saying about stability rather than "that shit will ruin some of our unity eco system" but allow wayland that hasn't been properly tested and put it in stable release ?

So they partically banned gnome 3.4 saying about stability rather than "that shit will ruin some of our unity eco system" but allow wayland that hasn't been properly tested and put it in stable release ?

Like stated in the article Wayland will be shipped as an experimental preview for those who want to test it.

At least it doesn't crash the graphics drivers completely as it does when running natively without X.
And in X it even partly succeeds in rendering the clients correctly. At the beginning. For example, in the dnd demo the icons just go black when being clicked. Without X it just displays some stripes and after some time begins to consume 100% CPU and won't allow chaning to another tty.